Apple's Touch Bar
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Wastedtalent wrote:
I thought that Surface dial was pretty cool though, not that I'd personally see a use for it.
I think its main purpose would end up as hiding the scratches it made on the screen last week. As for functionality, it's pretty unusable, because (the way it was used in the ad) your sleeve and elbow would be redrawing most of your work while you twiddled with it. You'd have to keep it right at the bottom of the screen, and then be really careful that your fingers don't brush the screen while you're twiddling. Essentially, it's a pig in a poke that cost several million that could have been spent fixing the 850,000 bugs in windows and msoffice. That'd be the press announcement to end all press announcements, wouldn't it? We've fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. We've also fixed this bug. (etc.) They'd be hailed as conquering heroes -- trustworthy conquering heroes. I think few trust them, right now.
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Erm... never heard of "palm rejection"? It's been around for a while on a lot of touch screen devices.
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Erm... never heard of "palm rejection"? It's been around for a while on a lot of touch screen devices.
Fingertips dragging around the edges of an unnecessary-to-the-point-of-pointlessness colour-picker/screen-rotator hardly count as palms. Nor do elbows. At least when apple makes fancy, overpriced tools they're useful.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Except it seems blindingly obvious that everything he's doing would be way easier and more fun if the entire bloody screen was touch.
Except people would complain about that too. Personally, I think it's awesome and a good segway into making things more touch screen down the road. Now if I could just convince Outlook to save .jpg extensions on a Mac, life would be great.
Jeremy Falcon
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Fingertips dragging around the edges of an unnecessary-to-the-point-of-pointlessness colour-picker/screen-rotator hardly count as palms. Nor do elbows. At least when apple makes fancy, overpriced tools they're useful.
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Oh, you're one of the people who hate Microsoft... my mistake. 1. Tools like the Surface Dial have been around for a long time. This just adds some additional features to it. Some of which may very well be extremely useful although, obviously not for you. 2. If you are clumsy enough that you can't use it without having your fingers touching the screen you probably aren't a great artist. 3. Elbows are rejected just the same as palms. Especially when you are using the pen. 4. $100 is not unreasonable for the thing... overpriced is your opinion.
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Oh, you're one of the people who hate Microsoft... my mistake. 1. Tools like the Surface Dial have been around for a long time. This just adds some additional features to it. Some of which may very well be extremely useful although, obviously not for you. 2. If you are clumsy enough that you can't use it without having your fingers touching the screen you probably aren't a great artist. 3. Elbows are rejected just the same as palms. Especially when you are using the pen. 4. $100 is not unreasonable for the thing... overpriced is your opinion.
I_made_a_womble wrote:
Oh, you're one of the people who hate Microsoft... my mistake.
A mistake has certainly been made. I've been an ms booster for over 30 years, arguing their corner against Unix, apple, linux, and even netscape fanbois, only to find that they cannot be trusted to do anything useful, any more. If you truly believe that that screen-scratching gadget is useful, go ahead and buy one, so that you can spend all your time changing the colours on your full-screen graphics -- after all, that's the only thing that the people who gave ms their billions do all day, isn't it? But buy one quickly, because you probably won't even be able to find them in bargain bins, soon.
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I_made_a_womble wrote:
Oh, you're one of the people who hate Microsoft... my mistake.
A mistake has certainly been made. I've been an ms booster for over 30 years, arguing their corner against Unix, apple, linux, and even netscape fanbois, only to find that they cannot be trusted to do anything useful, any more. If you truly believe that that screen-scratching gadget is useful, go ahead and buy one, so that you can spend all your time changing the colours on your full-screen graphics -- after all, that's the only thing that the people who gave ms their billions do all day, isn't it? But buy one quickly, because you probably won't even be able to find them in bargain bins, soon.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
It has a soft pad on the bottom why would it scratch the screen? And by the way, I'm on Code Project... my art is code. I probably wouldn't need a surface dial, but I know a lot of folk who will love it.
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Snazzy, the link is missing a "g", but she is a pretty one. Did know that, but then again I'm from the south and we take pride in not knowing fancy words.
Jeremy Falcon
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Snazzy, the link is missing a "g", but she is a pretty one. Did know that, but then again I'm from the south and we take pride in not knowing fancy words.
Jeremy Falcon
I think CP is out to sabotage my postings. That's the second time the auto-linky thing has dropped a letter from the end. And I'm from Pompey, which is pretty far south
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It has a soft pad on the bottom why would it scratch the screen? And by the way, I'm on Code Project... my art is code. I probably wouldn't need a surface dial, but I know a lot of folk who will love it.
It has to be put down "off-screen", to pick up grit, muck, spilled coffee/paint/whatever. You shouldn't touch your screen with anything other than soft, lint-free cleaning cloths.
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I think CP is out to sabotage my postings. That's the second time the auto-linky thing has dropped a letter from the end. And I'm from Pompey, which is pretty far south
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
And I'm from Pompey, which is pretty far south
New York?
Jeremy Falcon
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
And I'm from Pompey, which is pretty far south
New York?
Jeremy Falcon
Hey, the plankies only add "new" to a name because they can't think of anything original.
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You don't want to hear what he calls you when you're not logged in.
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I never felt comfortable using a touch display on a laptop (or regular screen). Do people really use the touch screen on a laptop if available ? is it fatiguing ?
I'd rather be phishing!
I use the touch screen on my laptop for some purposes. Mostly I use just keyboard-n-mouse -- as others have noted, fingers are not very accurate. [I don't care for touchpads, either, as they're slower to use than a mouse] However, in doing demos for 1 or 2 people, the touch screen makes things easier for everyone. No need to transfer the mouse, just drag things around on screen. There are also times when I'm reviewing long data lists where I need to make short jumps -- the touch screen works well. Although I have to clean the screen when done ...
